Ments



(No Model.)

H. A. THAYER.

FOLDING BED. No. 337,635. Ptented Mar. 9, 1886.

4 x P mgm M Pneus, Phnmmgnpw. wamangm. D. cA

UNTTEE STATES PATENT OEETEE.

HENRY A. THAYER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TOy GEORGE S. HULBERT, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,635, dated March 9, 1886.

Application tiled May 2, 1385. Serial No. 164,170.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, HENRY A. THAYER, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, New York, have made a certain Improvement in Folding Beds, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof.

The invention relates toa new and improved construction of the head board, or a part thereof, ofsueh folding bed, whereby7 the headboard, or a part thereof, when the bed is ex'- tended or unfolded, becomes the cover or shelf when the bed is folded, and the outer or eX- posed side or face of the head-board becomes the under and protected side of the shelf or cover.

The accompanying drawings represent my 23 improvement. Figure l is a rear View of the head of a bed embodying it. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section, of the bed extended, and Fig. 3 of the bed closed up.

Like letters of reference iudicatclike parts.

25 A is the general frame work ofthe head of the bed, which is fixed or stationary.

B is the bed proper, or folding part of the bed. These parts A and B may be of any desired construction, and may be connected together in any desired way, so that the part B can be rolled or folded up against the part A and held there when the bed is not required to be extended.

Gis a panel forming the head-board when the bed is unfolded, and adapted to form a cover or shelf over the part B when that part is rolled or folded up against the part A, and it is so mounted and connected with the part A that the face or surface of the panel which 4o forms the exposed face, as a head-board, be-

comes the under and protected face of the cover or shelf. This mode of combining the panel C with the fixed head part A of the bed enables me to employ one side or surface of the panel as the effective, because the exposed side of the head-board, and to employ the other side or surface of the panel as the effective, because the upper side of the shelf.

Heretofore all folding beds which have employed a hinged or pivoted head-board as a cover during such times as the bed is folded (No model.)

up have so combined such head-board with the fixed headframe of the bed that the front and exposed side of the head-board became the upper and useful side or surface of the cover or shelf. This has made it impossible to 'employ the cover as an effective shelf,l by reason of the injury to the ornamental work of the headboard resulting therefrom, or has necessitated the use ofunornaxnented and plain wood headboards. Hinges and such other connections have been needed, that are unsightly when the bed is unfolded and the panel used as a headboard.

My improvement enables me to employ panels that are highly ornamental, Veneered, or carved on one side and plain and unornamented on the other side, whereby the panel, when in its operative position as a headboard, presents a highly-ornamental face, and when 7C in its operative position as a covering-shelf presents aplain and effective shelf-surface, which may be freely used as a shelf without the slightest danger of injury to the headboard of the bed.

To accomplish the purpose of my improvenient it is necessary to connect the lower edge of the panel C, when in position as a headboard, with the frame A by a sliding connection, whereby the panel may be raised -from 8o that position into its operative position as a shelf, the upper edge of the head-board panel swinging outward and becoming the front edge of the shelf-panel.

The particular mode of connecting the panel 8= o with the fixed head part A which I prefer to use is shown in the drawings. The panel C is shown in Figs. l and 2 in its operative position as a head-board. In such position it is held in place by a catch or latch, a, of any gc. well-known construction, at its upper part catching into the frame A,and preferably, also, by pins b b at its lower part projecting from l thc ends of the panel and taking loosely into and adapted to move up and down freely in 9: ways or grooves c c, cut in the frame A at each u side of the panel C. Attached to the lower part of this head-board panel, as it stands in Figs. 1 and 2, is a band or bands, d d, having a weight or weights, e e, at the other end and zoo passing over a pulley or pulleys,f f, placed, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3, at or above the position the panel C is to occupy when in position as a covering-shelf when the bed is folded.`

W'hen pins b b are used, the ways or grooves c c in which they slide must be long enough to enable the panel C to be moved from its position as a head-board (shown in Figs. l and 2) to its position asacoveringshelf,(shown in Fig. 3.) The Weights ce assistin this raising of the panel.

The weights and bands may of course be varied in their details of construction, und may be omitted altogether it' the panel C is made light; but I prefer to use them.

Fig. 3 snows the bed folded and the panel C in its position as a coveriugshelf, in which the back surface of the panel as a head-board has become the upper and efi'ective surface of the panel as a shelf'.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with the fixed headframe A and folding` part B of a folding bed,

the movable panel C, constructed with piul and-groove sliding connection with frame A., whereby to present one surface as a headboard and the other surface as a coveringshelf, substantially as and l'or the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with the fixed headframe A and folding part B of' a folding` bed, the movable panel C, having attached counter-weights and constructed with pin-andgroove sliding` connection with frame A, whereby to present one surface as a headboard and thc other surl'aee as a coveringshelf, substantially as and for the purposes set-forth.

3. In combination with the frame A, having gooves c c, and the bed proper7 B. the counterweigllted panel C, having pins Z) I), all combined, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY A. TIIAYER.

XVitnesses:

W. C. \f\frr'ri:n, NV. H. KENYoN. 

